From the origin of the Fu character of the Eighteen Fu of Guangzhou, it can be seen that the king of Pingnan is still happy to wash the evidence of Guangzhou's crimes in blood

Guangzhou Xiguan has a second fu, a third fu... All the way to the eighteenth fu, only there is no first fu, but there is a first jin, why? When people talk about the first tsutsu, they say, "The first tsutsu- 冇甫 (score)." ”

There is a saying in Guangzhou: "People are good, you talk well, you know the flowers and grasses, go to the first tsu, and completely sunshine (spectrum). ”

How did the locations of these "Fu" characters come about?

According to legend, in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, The King of Pingnan led the Qing army to capture the city of Guangzhou, and was intercepted by the people along the way, especially when the Qing soldiers drove to the Longyan Cave on the outskirts of Guangzhou, they lost soldiers and suffered heavy casualties, and after several hardships, they captured the city of Guangzhou.

He vowed to wash Guangzhou in blood, and prepared to order the killing of people for three days, starting from the West Gate to pave the way for eighteen consecutive killings to relieve the hatred in his heart. At that time, Wang Xiangquan, an aide with an unbroken conscience, was shocked when he learned the inside story, and thought to himself: "One paved road is ten miles, eighteen paved is one hundred and eighty miles, eighteen shops are washed in blood, and Guangzhou does not know how many people died under the butcher's knife!" When he was extremely anxious, he suddenly thought: The ancient "Fu" and "Shop" are connected, why don't I replace "Fu" with "Shop", so as to reduce the harm to innocents.

Wang Xiangquan immediately summoned two of his henchmen and explained this to them. They were asked to make more than a dozen wooden plaques that read "First Shop" and "Second Shop" and "Eighteen Shops" all the way to "Eighteen Shops." Then take it overnight and put up a sign. From the first jin of the Six Pulse Canal, it can be regarded as the "first shop"; across a street, the "second shop" is nailed; after twenty or thirty meters, the "third shop" is nailed; when it is nailed to the "ninth shop", it is found that this street is very long, afraid of arousing suspicion, the clever soldiers immediately make a decision, with the six pulse canal as the boundary, divided into "upper nine shops" and "lower nine shops". After a night of running, I finally nailed the wooden sign of "Eighteen Shops".

The next day, the Qing soldiers who carried out the "Eighteen Shops of Killing" were not familiar with the environment and did not know the details, so they did not know the details, and they did not give up at the wooden plaque nailed with "Eighteen Shops".

When the other people heard about the Qing army slaughtering the city, they ran to the Liumai Canal to take shelter. How do you know that it just happened to be a heavy rain that day, and the water of the Liumai Canal rose sharply, and I don't know how many people who took refuge in the canal drowned. This is the tragic case of "killing eighteen shops and killing corpses and six canals" in the history of Guangzhou.

Later, in order to avoid revealing the filling, people quietly scraped off the golden word of the word "shop" in the wooden sign, so that the word "shop" became "甫". In this way, a series of place names with the word "甫" appeared in Xiguan.